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Testudinalia testudinalis (plant limpet)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Testudinalia testudinalis, common name the common tortoise limpet, is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Lottiidae, one of the families of true limpets. It is commonly known as the plant limpet or tortoiseshell limpet.
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Habitat Vegetation Classification

Name Location  Website 
New England Rocky Intertidal Rocky Shore United States (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island); Canada
North Atlantic Tidal Rocky Shore United States (New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts); Canada

Predators

Hippoglossoides platessoides (American dab)[1]
Nucella lapillus (Atlantic dogwinkle)[1]
Somateria mollissima (Common Eider)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0